New assignment, and Twitter widget arrives

Back on my homepage, there’s a news reading assignment for you to post to your blogs.

Meanwhile, over in the right column you should see a new “widget” — a list of my last 10 Twitter posts. Some will be relevant to this class, some won’t. Watch for stories to cover, jobs and internships, tools and distractions.

Note: For those new to Twitter, something beginning with “RT” is someone else’s Twitter post that I’ve forwarded to my readers because I think it’s interesting — not always because I agree with it 100 percent. A hashmark — # — is a keyword that may help explain a group discussion, collect tweets from or about a particular event [e.g. #sotu for the president’s State of the Union address], or help a writer collect ideas on a topic for publication or just for fun [e.g. #datelikeajournalist].